Price's HISTORY OF METHODISM, vOL. 11, P. 283 (QUOTED IN TENNESSEE TOMBSTONE RECORDS OF HAMBLEN COUNTY, W. P. A. Historical Records Project No. 465-44-3-115, July, 1938) states: James Landrum was a local Methodist preacher and lived near the mouth of Lick Creek at the time the Camp Ground (Sulphur Springs) was built. He afterwards settled two miles west of Morristown and aided in building the first Methodist Church in that neighborhood. It was built at a point so easy of access from every direction that Rev. David Fleming gave it the name of Economy. Brother Landrum was among the first to find a grave in the graveyard at Ecomomy. James Landrum was a Revolutionary soldier and his grave is so marked.
According to DAR No. 465142, James Landrum was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in Lawson's Brigade, Col. John Malcolm's Regiment. He drew a Revolutionary War pension in the Knoxville Agency, transferred to the Jonesboro agency in 1831.
According to DAR No. 465142, James Landrum was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in Lawson's Brigade, Col. John Malcolm's Regiment. He drew a Revolutionary War pension in the Knoxville Agency, transferred to the Jonesboro agency in 1831.
Price's HISTORY OF METHODISM, vOL. 11, P. 283 (QUOTED IN TENNESSEE TOMBSTONE RECORDS OF HAMBLEN COUNTY, W. P. A. Historical Records Project No. 465-44-3-115, July, 1938) states: James Landrum was a local Methodist preacher and lived near the mouth of Lick Creek at the time the Camp Ground (Sulphur Springs) was built. He afterwards settled two miles west of Morristown and aided in building the first Methodist Church in that neighborhood. It was built at a point so easy of access from every direction that Rev. David Fleming gave it the name of Economy. Brother Landrum was among the first to find a grave in the graveyard at Ecomomy. James Landrum was a Revolutionary soldier and his grave is so marked.
According to DAR No. 465142, James Landrum was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in Lawson's Brigade, Col. John Malcolm's Regiment. He drew a Revolutionary War pension in the Knoxville Agency, transferred to the Jonesboro agency in 1831.
According to DAR No. 465142, James Landrum was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in Lawson's Brigade, Col. John Malcolm's Regiment. He drew a Revolutionary War pension in the Knoxville Agency, transferred to the Jonesboro agency in 1831.
